User talk:MonickBrandComm

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Hello, MonickBrandComm, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

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Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, MonickBrandComm, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.'''A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding below. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "Email this user" on their talk page.
 * At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:35, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

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The block above would have been without the option of creating a new account if you had actually made any edits to the article. You should be aware that I've already blocked seven sockpuppet accounts involved in paid editing on this article with no option to create new accounts. If you edit this article, even from a new account, it's likely that you will also be hard-blocked as well, as yet another sock puppet.

Please read the following regarding writing an article.
 * Editors with an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. Since you are paid directly or indirectly on his behalf, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . Please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI will lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.
 * you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked him or his organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what he or his organisation claims or interviewing him. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Most of the references were to his own writings or other closely associated sources such as his company profile, it's basically a vanity page sourced to himself.
 * The article needs to show how he meets our notability guidelines using multiple independent, reliable, secondary sources
 * Text must have a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * you must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. Some of the text was copied from his official biograpghy, which is not PD

He's probably notable, it's just a pity that his article has been created my multiple undeclared paid editors. We don't normally restore the contributions of blocked or banned users, and in any case the sources are poor and the tone hagiographic.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above, and be aware that given the chequered history of this article, you will need to be very careful if you undertake to write an article yourself Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:59, 4 October 2018 (UTC)